my take on nyc...

[DanS]

FWIW, my friends who have moved to NYC work like beaten dogs and live in shoeboxes. On the other hand, they get paid rather handsomely and I bet they save a lot, or at least have an opportunity to save a lot. They also don't have cars, which I think you'll find are very expensive in Houston as well.

Other food for thought is that the statistics say that Washington has the longest average work week, not NYC. 53 hours. It may be more of an East Coast city culture kind of thing. Washington's a whole hell of a lot cheaper than NYC, and people aren't working, strictly speaking, in order to survive in the city.

[mrmitchell]

People obviously work hard to live in NYC because they love living there.

[Zkribbler]

For the same reason, people used to work really hard in slave galleys.

[:) Smiley]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
NYC:
There is a 30-second grace period on red lights.

And none whatsoever for green ones, hell, you'd better have hit the gas when the other light turns yellow if you don't want to be rear-ended.